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With OpenCore Legacy Patcher 0.5.0, support for macOS Ventura has been implemented for most Metal capable Macs. This page informs users of the current status and will be updated as new patch sets are developed and added to our patcher.
Newly dropped hardware
Ventura's release dropped a huge amount of Intel hardware, requiring support for the following models to be added into OpenCore Legacy Patcher:
- iMac16,1 (21.5-inch, Late 2015)
- iMac16,2 (21.5-inch 4K, Late 2015)
- iMac17,1 (27-inch 5K, Late 2015)
- MacBook9,1 (12-inch, Early 2016)
- MacBookAir7,1 (11-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBookAir7,2 (13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBookPro11,4 (15-inch, Mid 2015, iGPU)
- MacBookPro11,5 (15-inch, Mid 2015, dGPU)
- MacBookPro12,1 (13-inch, Early 2015)
- MacBookPro13,1 (13-inch, Late 2016)
- MacBookPro13,2 (13-inch, Late 2016)
- MacBookPro13,3 (15-inch, Late 2016)
- MacPro6,1 (Late 2013)
Current status
Ventura is mostly usable on all Metal capable Macs (2012 and newer), having only a few minor known issues. However, 2012 Macs with Ivy Bridge currently have non-functional power management, leading to higher energy consumption. A display init issue affecting the Mac Pro Late 2013 (MacPro6,1) is currently making it unable to boot Ventura, more information here.
Refer to this pull request and this GitHub issue to see up-to-date status and information about issues with Ventura.
The team is doing their best to investigate and fix the aforementioned issues, however no estimated time can be provided.
Currently broken hardware
BCM94328, BCM94322 and Atheros WiFi cards will not function under Ventura, as Ventura has broken legacy WiFi patches.
Ivy Bridge and older CPU support (Pre-AVX 2.0)
OpenCore Legacy Patcher supports booting and updates on these machines, a way to implement automatic dyld cache swap was added. However as previously stated, power management is currently non-functional which means the CPU and GPU may constantly run on higher clocks, causing more energy consumption, battery drain and higher temperatures.
- Note: AVX 2.0 is required for Vega and Navi drivers, making these cards non-functional under Ventura when a Pre-AVX 2.0 CPU is used, which includes all classic Mac Pros. Therefore Polaris is the newest architecture functional with these machines.
Non-Metal support
Currently not supported. Apple has changed the graphics stack significantly to support new features (such as Stage Manager) by adding a new layer called WindowManager, breaking all previous patches. Therefore an estimated time for non-Metal support cannot be provided, as this has created a much greater challenge.